True Dat.

Think of all that has been lost in America, and ask if it's been offset by what's being created anew: 

Mr. Trump has the added advantage of the economy having been humming before the pandemic upended his last year in office. Inflation was practically nonexistent. Unemployment was low. The nation wasn’t neck deep in scary, sticky wars. ...

[I]f, come fall of 2024, he asks voters that most basic of political questions, “Weren’t you better off when I was president?” an awful lot may answer, “Hell, yeah.”

It's not. Not right now in America, not yet...

How we get there, it's not clear, but let's be honest about where we are going and what it is costing us to get there.  Real diversity means the top-down, age-old, inherited traditions over common-sense decision-making today must adapt to conditions -- and people -- on the ground around us. Sometimes what is best for all of us is best for the best of us, even if their short-sightedness prevents them from seeing what is really going on around them. Diversity helps, listening to others and respecting what they report.

Not trying to mold them in your own image.